FADED GLORY

We were made for glory meaning God was proud of his creation of humanity. But our glory faded a long time ago. God being disappointed with his creation and also in humanity. Lack of respect and loyalty and not living the ten commandments. First we disobeyed then we died on the inside spiritually then we started dying on the outside. Meaning a physical death. Then we turned to our own devices. Meaning to leave someone unsupervised to do whatever they want. Then we said “God we don’t need you at all. Leave us alone”. And we wonder why the world is the way it is. Look in the mirror. We have met the enemy and he is us. This is true we are our own worst enemy. We decide to destroy our lives by accepting offers of addictions and putting them in our mouths and killing off our brain. We had a choice we can say no but didn’t. Don’t blame them blame ourselves for our own decline in health and hardship. Now we can complain or change our lifestyle and to a better way of living and thinking. The glamor of the party life is now a disaster and so are we for now until we longer live it. the sober life has glamorized becoming popular with the boozer desperate to salvage what is left of the ruins of our lives. To create useful persons from the twisted and useless scrap of the destroyed minds of boozers.

The faded life of booze and the glory of a sober life.

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THE PRETENDERS

We are the entertainers and some else is running the show. We are all followers. We couldn’t lead ourselves out of a room made of doors. We think we can solve every issue. Don’t pretend to have all the answers. Talk to people. Depression and confusion in a dark desolate room is a lonely place to die. “They’re always looking for better one’s”. Applies to mates and other uses. Keep in mind people around you are doing this. Don’t let people find someone better than you. Straighten up and be the better man. Good chance your mate is doing this right now. Looking for someone else. No one likes a show off and it’s hard for me to believe that you like being one. Drinkers are this way to entertain people and to amuse themselves. No problem it only happens while drunk but for some people it happens while sober. A mate tries to get serious with you and all you have to offer is amusement pretending to avoid the hardships of the real world that we should be taking serious. Start pouring booze into your body then a clown starts to emerge trying to hide from the failure you believe you are from other people too. You can’t fool people into thinking this is the real you and lying to them and yourself. No person on earth can be comfortable living this way. You must be miserable and feeling foolish and hard to face yourself in the mirror the next morning sobering up. This is one reason why living sober is better than living like a fake pretending to a man without hardship. You need to live a sober life and show the world that you are a better person that can face reality while being sober. Why be a pretender and disgrace yourself when you can be real and sober. Show this off at your next party. Will make an impression for others to follow.

You must feel totally destroyed and very low so give it up and live a happy life.

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RESPECT LIFE

Strange how we remember the times we got drunk and can’t recall the last time we had pizza. Is it important to keep these in mind? Every drunk is a trophy and we hang them up on our ego like a mantle. To sit and admire? Conversation piece? Something to be proud of? Wave your flags and March to the sad tune. The Death March. Our crushed egos will rise back up from the dead and see a sign of life again. Ourselves. Fresh from the warm dying embers and keep the eternal flame burning. Recognize the value we have hidden inside of us and be aware of the importance and the personal rewards we experience at the start of each day to display it like a flag you are proud to raise and let people see it when they see walking around. You will have the constant feeling of respect for your life. Living sober is respecting your life placing a value on others and yourself. People who live depressed feel they have lost it all but some don’t look for value to replace what they lost. Stop before this happens and a sober life is a value in itself. Let it grow into a quality life and be something special inside of you and inside other people around you. Keep it growing and enjoy the daily harvest. I know that booze is a fungus that will kill it off. Fungus cannot kill off sobriety. Being sober is the only thing that will improve us with a good diet everyday and exercise. You can’t have all this and be a boozer too. Respect the good life only you can create. Adding disrespect and disgrace to your life is abuse of the worst kind. When you feel like a fool you know something is totally wrong and needs to be corrected.

Sobriety is the only way to put value and honor back into your life.

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THE IN CROWD

I’m in with in crowd. I go where the in crowd goes. I know what the in crowd knows. We breeze up and down the street. We get respect from the people we meet. The in crowd is out of sight. We got our own way of walking. We got our own way of talking. I don’t care where you’ve been. You ain’t been nowhere until you’ve been in with the in crowd. The in crowd is the sober crowd. A group of really cool do your thing group of guys. If you ain’t sober,you ain’t there. Other guys imitate us. But the original’s still the greatest. Get in with the sober in crowd. And be one of the greatest.

The in crowd. Song by Dobie Gray. 1963

July 26,1940-December 6, 2011. age 71

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MOMENTS IN A LIFE

Many people don’t know that the reason we go into depression is because of our own disappointment. Lack of faith. Lack of trust. Full of doubt. Convinced we will fail at all of our attempts. More depression with the feeling of being left behind. There are far worse things in life than being left behind. Don’t watch life pass us by. Make important changes to improve ourselves. Addictions thrive on failure. The longer we use them the more we fail. One dose at a time. We travel so far down that road we may lose our way back. Lost wandering in the middle of nowhere. Lose our mind,body and soul. The lost soul. That’s us. Find our way out of the addictions nightmare and live peaceful. Live sober. Living each day with the good feeling that you left addictions behind you. Waking up not having to find and use them ever again. Tired of feeling all worn out and not worth two cents? There may not be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. For me living a life of sobriety feels like I have found it.

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A SOLEMN PROMISE

Many boring times the story has been told. “I’ll quit drinking when I’m dead.” Sounds like the typical drinker. Makes for a dull life. The story repeats itself for years like an echo. Worn out scenarios about a stuffy life. Similar to sitting in a broom closet. The seagulls,the beach, the waves flopping in all day long. Orchestra of the sea. Each wave singing their own tune. Time to walk out of the broom closet and see a better life. Sobriety has a certain hidden loyalty contained within. Have to be loyal to being sober to understand why. Now it’s time to write a new book. Telling the world how much better life is being sober. Filling the printed page with your intelligence. Explaining the easy steps on how to become you. It all begins with loyalty to sobriety and making a solemn promise to yourself.

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THE SAD TRUTH

Sometimes funny stories contain a serious lesson. Embarrassing to admit they apply to our lives.

A friend once told me. I’m standing here broke. Spent all my money drinking and the bartender rolls around the corner with a brand new car that I helped pay for. Quit addictions and own a car of your own.

He also told me. I don’t understand it. The dog is out in the backyard chained up. And they have me out on the loose. The dog is more tame than I am. Ever notice how happy the dog is at home? Stay home and be happy too.

Backyard firepits is where friends and marshmallows get toasted. At the same time. Learning to cook is a good thing. Making ourselves the main course is a little ridiculous. We become the toast of the town.

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LITTLE BIT OF SOUL

You gotta make like you wanna kneel and pray

Then a little bit of soul will come your way

When your girl is gone and you’re broken in two

You need a little bit of soul to see you through

As you go through life trying to reach your goal

Just remember what I said about a little bit of soul

Little bit of soul. Song by the music explosion 1967

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DOWN THE HIGHWAY

We talked about things getting better. But they still looked the same to me. Could be a nearsighted heart seeing what it wants to see. Take me to the highway. Take me far from here. These days I’m not seeing anything too clear. I need another point of view. Someplace I’ve never seen. Keeping my eyes wide open. I’ve been looking for an answer and I’ve got a long way to go. But when I reach that place I know I’ll find what I’m looking for.

Take me to the highway. Song by the doobie brothers. 1989

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ON THE DARK SIDE

We all stand together with a similar identity with whom we follow and learn from. We need a light to help us find the road to take us to our destiny. Leaders like authors and composers to teach us the beginning steps. Leaders to guide us into an ethical life. Pirates will lead us into a life of misery. Addictions starts this way. By a person or a description that had hidden warnings we could not find or wasn’t told. Their intentions are to leave out the truth to trick us to follow them into deception. We all trust people in life and sometimes we have bad results. Someone comes along and shows us where the deception was hidden. We begin again the proper way and slowly merge into a sensible life. We leave the dark side of the addictions life and into the light to see our future ahead of us.

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